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05/12/07
Comedy of Power (2005)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:29
Rotten:7
Average Rating:6.6/10
Synopsis: Celebrated French director Claude Chabrol (LA CEREMONIE) teams up with his regular muse, Isabelle Huppert, for this scandal-driven drama.
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, François Berléand, Marilyn Canto, Robin Renucci
Director: Claude Chabrol
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Reviews for Comedy of Power
With Isabelle Huppert holding court and irresistibly dominating the proceedings, this is never really about the crimes she investigates - but it probably should have been, as the film, for all the quality of its performances, is a trial for the viewer.
12/06/07
[A] film that delivers quite a few chuckles but generally is very tame; all the characters never really leap off the screen and into your heart.
04/25/06
Trekkies believe in a curse on odd-numbered Star Trek movies. I have a theory that every other Claude Chabrol production sucks.
12/21/06
Un irónico vistazo a los vericuetos del poder y la justicia, mucho menos interesante de lo que se esperaba. La estupenda Isabelle Huppert levanta el interés.
11/06/06
The movie sags in the middle. Even an acrimonious split between the judge and her husband doesn't raise the emotional stakes because love appears to have gone out of this relationship long ago.
01/13/07
Top CriticChabrol has fashioned a mystery that caves in on itself, but unfortunately, it caves in on the audience, too.
01/17/07
Top CriticWould that Chabrol were as fiery with the script (co-written by Odile Barski). It's suspenseless and toothless, and you never get the feeling the case Jeanne is investigating is a big deal.
01/05/07
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11/30/07
Comedy of Power is not Claude Chabrol's deepest or most ambitious film, but Isabelle Huppert's ferocity compensates for the director's detachment.
01/04/07
Top CriticOne cannot imagine a similarly sophisticated fictional treatment of the Enron case from the point of view of both the accusers and the accused; in Hollywood movies, there is only right and wrong. Chabrol’s Comedy of Power is much wiser than that.
01/31/07
Top CriticA Comedy Of Power fails to dig deep into this idea, or into the life of its protagonist. It's largely left to the charismatic Huppert to make this sly but oddly slight drama a decent watch.
12/13/07
A witty, timely drama.
03/02/07
No laughs – but still plenty to like in this diverting and insightful thriller that plays out in the higher echelons of the French judiciary and Parisian world of high business.
12/13/07
Despite the title, there's no laugh-out-loud comedy in this mostly serious thriller.
03/21/09
Draggy for long stretches, and never funny, Comedy of Power is a showcase -- as if she needed another -- for Huppert's chameleon qualities.
01/05/07
Top CriticIn Claude Chabrol's shark-toothed new drama, (inspired by the real-life 'Elf Affair' that implicated oil company magnates), Huppert exudes disarming briskness as her Jeanne mercilessly topples corporate giants and spits out big-cigar politicians.
01/04/07
Top CriticChabrol manages a brisk, light tone, even though the movie is mostly talk, and Huppert turns in a powerhouse performance.
04/19/07
Chabrol creates an unexpectedly humane portrait of bubble worlds in collision.
01/03/07
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